Re: "last" not showing recent login activity

2012-12-17 Thread Matthias Petermann
Hi Matthew, Zitat von Matthew Seaman : Errr... OK. Yours is a different issue with utx.log. It is not syslog that updates utx.log but the various programs like login(1) or sshd(8) that actually handle the authentication when you try and log in. Most applications achieve that via the pam_last

Re: "last" not showing recent login activity

2012-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/12/2012 21:22, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 17/12/2012 18:55, Matthias Petermann wrote: >> Hello, >> >> on one of my systems I just found out that "last" only shows some old >> login / logout activity, but not the recent actvities. >> >> The strange thing... everytime I log into the system, /va

Re: "last" not showing recent login activity

2012-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/12/2012 18:55, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hello, > > on one of my systems I just found out that "last" only shows some old > login / logout activity, but not the recent actvities. > > The strange thing... everytime I log into the system, /var/log/utx.log > gets update to the current timest

"last" not showing recent login activity

2012-12-17 Thread Matthias Petermann
Hello, on one of my systems I just found out that "last" only shows some old login / logout activity, but not the recent actvities. The strange thing... everytime I log into the system, /var/log/utx.log gets update to the current timestamp (and also grows by some bytes). But "last" only s